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RickB- Human, Artist, Fool.

Ynys Mon, UK.

The blog is called ten percent because of what Kurt Vonnegut wrote when remembering Susan Sontag - She was asked what she had learned from the Holocaust, and she said that 10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and that 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and that the remaining 80 percent could be moved in either direction.-

And I'm writing it because I need the therapy and I lust for world domination.

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23 November, 2009 — RickB

And todays missing words from this report are ‘framed‘ and ‘lied‘, as in- the government, police, FBI and CPS framed Lotfi Raissi and lied about the evidence. Yet as we know the powerful do not have the such words used about them that’s just for the likes of us guv’nor. Even the prospective covering up of a massive war crime is called a whitewash. Yet one word appears frequently ‘independent‘ in respects to all manner of official doings, no words are missing here but we must remember definitions change, independent means- a really super extra special effort at Public Relations to convince the chumps we didn’t do the crimes we did.

A real one- “Travellers are trying to drive us off our land: Horse lover tells of threats after her field is surrounded” imbued with classic Mail racism, it’s criminals who are allegedly threatening her, the headline failing to distinguish between criminals and travellers smears the entire community.

Are travellers a race? Climate change is undeniable, but are humans to blame? Debatable. I’d love to get some `travellers` to live next door to you for a couple of weeks. Laugh my head off at the outcome.

Well race is actually a dodgy construct anyway, what racism means is to treat groups differently based on perceived characteristics, ie racism is real, race is something largely constructed to back it up. Anthropogenic climate change is pretty robust scientifically, however even if it were not the case the climate does and is changing and we can affect it to mitigate the effects that threaten us. So either way humans do affect the climate, flora & fauna, this is not controversial to anyone working in or interested in the natural world (it’s only disconnected urban dwellers and paid shills who disagree) the climate is changing, whether we are to blame becomes a bit academic in the face of the changes happening we have to do something or… Mad Max time!

Never had probs with travellers, that’s what I mean by the headline, it is like saying person threatened by English people, it is a broad racist brush, what the person is threatened by is criminals, the Mail headline implies criminality is intrinsic to travellers which is a bigoted smear.